A story as sharp as a knife : the classical Haida mythtellers and their world

As sharp as a knife

Masterworks of the classical Haida mythtellers ;

Prologue: Reading What Cannot Be Written -- Goose Food -- Spoken Music -- The One They Hand Along -- Wealth Has Big Eyes -- Oral Tradition and the Individual Talent -- The Anthropologist and the Dogfish -- Who's Related to Whom? -- The Epic Dream -- The Shaping of the Canon -- The Flyting of Skaay and Xhyuu -- You Are That Too -- Sleek Blue Beings -- The Iridescent Silence of the Trickster -- The Last People in the World -- A Knife That Could Open Its Mouth -- The Historian of Ttanuu -- Chase What's Gone -- A Blue Hole in the Heart -- The Prosody of Meaning -- Shellheap of the Gods -- 1 November 1908 -- How the Town Mother's Wife Became the Widow of Her Husband's Sister's Sons -- Haida Spelling and Pronunciation -- Haida as a Written Language -- Spelling of Other Native American Languages -- The Structure of Skaay's Raven Travelling.

Being in being : the collected works of Skaay of the Qquuna Qiighawaay

Masterworks of the classical Haida mythtellers ;